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Cause in this country monetary and financial policy is an attribution of congress? There is a problem when you try to translate and impose the institutions of your country to a different country... of course, yours must be better but countries can (sometimes) decide whatever please them better...

My example was three-dimensional as theater plays was only one of three examples. We go to a ballet or dance show almost every week (last week was Russian ballet at Coliseum, this week will be the Sleeping Beauty at Colon). We are taking different courses at Centro Cultural Rojas. We saw a nice...

The government of a country has the right (whatever this is right or not) to decide what currency of a legal tenure and circulation in a country. As I mentioned before, I do not agree with this restrictions (even if they work in my favor as I am paid in foreign currency), but this is something...

Agree 200%. This government sucks big time. However, exchange rate controls is not unique to Argentina these days and a lot of the developed countries applied it in the past. For instance, when the UK applied them (they were abolished in 1979 if I am not mistaken) probably no one compared the...

I think the irony is unfair. My wife and I were gladly surprised by the amount of theater plays, concerns, shows BA has to offer. You may not be able to compare it to Paris, London or NYC but for a middle income developing country the cultural offer here is amazing. Plus the underground scene is...

1) Phrase took out of context. 2) Wrong: the US dollar do not belong to the people, so they are not begging for their pocket money. So far, if you have US dollars in the bank, you can get those dollars back. If you do not have them, the government does not authorize you to buy them.

No, accurate as in A C C U R A T E. It is hard to cheat with this statistics as the reserves are held in financial instruments and not in a little box. Can you prove that the BCRA is cheating or have you ever heard any international organization or anyone (including Clarin) disputing the BCRA...

C'mon why you would say something like this. Information on international reserves, monetary base and other monetary aggregates are published on a weekly basis. They are not secret at ALL and they are extremely accurate. Please go to http://www.bcra.gov.ar/index.asp, then to "Politica...

It took 20 minutes for the policy to arrive... and in all likelihood another 20 minutes to release the guy so he could keep up with his good work...

Get a real Argentine friend. You can do better than that, at least 6.3:1.

Just in case I was not clear enough... I do agree with you on the ideal of free market and how the system has been perverted. I also agree with you that governments go a long way to preserve the existing relations of power and that most of those measures go against us, the simple citizens (and...

It was done in the 1980s and during a short period of time in 2002... and this government loves to bring things from the past...

This is the funniest thing I read in 2012 so far. It ignores for instance how capitalism started. There are two theories (i) mercantilism with the charted trading companies (ie East and West India companies) where I would argue that the playing field was not leveled between the colonies and the...

The geography of gun violence across the 50 states plus the District of Columbia http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/07/geography-gun-violence/2655/

Sold euros last week at 8 pesos per euro.

14 dead, 50 wounded in shooting at Colorado theater http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/20/us/colorado-theater-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

I have had a different experience here. People have been always extremely nice to us. For me the problem is more that people would never told you that something is not possible and keep telling you that they will do it when they won't. Probably this is a culture thing but sometimes it gets under...

Like many others we love and hate the place. We have some family here and that helps a lot with the kids. There are a lot of activities for our kids and I found people very friendly in general. The other option for us would be Paris but the math works better for BsAs. The price of comparable...

I do not mean to be rude but please delete the contact information of that person. I know of two places where I used to sell dollars that were closed down by AFIP. You are not making anyone a favor but the government posting the contact information. Welcome to the forum.

As a career move, in my opinion, it is not worthwhile moving here if you do not have a salary premium or you are in a situation where you do work for a company abroad and get paid in hard currency. Of course, if you need to move for family reasons or you are in the early stages of your career...